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Ordo sæclorum: A treatise on the chronology of the Holy Scriptures: and the indications therein contained of a divine plan of times and seasons: together with an appendix ..

INTRODUCTION. $ 1. Apology for the present undertaking. 2 — 6. Survey of materials for the construction of Scripture Chronology. 7, 8. Schemes of Ussher and Petavius : their basis. 9. Mr. Clinton’s scheme described. 10. How the present differs from it. 11 — 14. Singular facts involved in this scheme: cannot be ascribed to human artifice. 15. General probability, from analogy of nature, that such facts are part of a Divine Plan. Scripture intimates the existence of such a Plan. 16. Its reality, how evidenced. 17 — 22. Importance of these results. Apologetic use. Modem scepticism. Uses to faith. Caution p. 1 — 24. PART I. HISTORICAL CHRONOLOGY. Chapter I. ON THE CHRONOLOGY OF THE GOSPEL HISTORY. P. 25—94. Section I. On the Time of Christ's Nativity. P. 25 — 52. § 23. Elements of the question. 24 — 28. Time of Herod's death ascertained from Josephus. 29 — 31. Confirmatory arguments. 32 — 37. The Sacerdotal Cycle described and applied to the determination of this question p. 25—36. Appendix I. On the Dates assigned to the Nativity by the early Christian Writers. § 38—47 p. 37—39. Appendix II. On the ’A iroypa · Electronic reproduction · Master and use copy. Digital master created accor

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